Vintage

Escort Card Idea (from Classic Bride): Pin escort cards to a vintage dress form.

Paint

I am IN LOVE with these paint chip housewarming invitations posted on Oh So Beautiful Paper. This idea could translate well to a save-the-date, escort cards, or a tag for favors.

Orange

This orange and white wedding by Corbin Gurkin is seriously insanely beautiful. From the draping to the suit jacket to the rock candy to garlands and tulips and favors and cake...

Italy

Intimate Wedding Idea: The perfect dinner in Italy (see here for full post on 100 Layer Cake). Complete with rustic bread, olive oil favors, vintage furniture, and cozy wraps. Wouldn't it be wonderful (and affordable) to plan a tiny wedding in a chapel in Tuscany followed by dinner in the Tuscan countryside? Just bride, groom, parents, a maid of honor and a best man.

Michigan Brides

Michigan Brides: Check out this fabulous new blog all about weddings in Michigan, called The Delicious Details!

Better Homes and Gardens

Wedding Resource: Better Homes and Gardens has a wedding site! What a fabulous place to get beautiful ideas!

Cayucos

Wedding Idea: Check out the list of “America’s Coolest Small Towns” from CNN.com and Budget Travel for a unique place to hold your destination wedding! Here is a fabulous one: The Cass House Inn in Cayucos, California. One of California's last original beach towns (complete with boardwalk and fishing pier), Cayucos is situated in San Luis Obispo County along Highway One. And after a 14 year renovation, the Cass House Inn now features five guest rooms, all elegantly and authentically refurbished, with several offer stunning ocean views.

Hankies

Ceremony Idea: Give out vintage hankies as "ceremony favors".

Alice

Theme Idea: I love this Alice in Wonderland save-the-date!! You can translate this theme into an elegant, adult event also. Give copies of the book, or illustrations from the book, either as favors or include with the invitation. Give pocketwatches as a groomsmen's gift. Serve tea-party finger foods during cocktail hour; serve Long Island Iced Tea as your signature drink.

Lanterns

Decor Idea: Vintage black lanterns with simple white candles. Use them to line the aisle in an outdoor wedding, or use as centerpieces--they require very few floral adornments, possibly just a few white roses.

Sparklers

I'm not sure how they pulled this off, but... Exit Idea: Exit in a shower of sparklers.

Camera

Reception Idea: As a nod to Laura’s profession as a photographer, the couple purchased antique cameras on eBay 
and used them as paperweights to hold down 
the cocktail napkins at the bar. From The Knot.

Letter

Program Idea: Model your programs after vintage love-letters. Have them hand-calligraphed, then printed on old paper.

Postcards

Program Idea: Make your programs out of vintage postcards!

Watch

Bouquet Idea: Tie your bouquet with an heirloom pocketwatch.

Brown

Brown and white are such a chic color combination--inspiration board from Grey Likes Weddings.

Birds

Love this cake by Karen Sullivan. Cake Idea: Go all white with a pop of orange, intricately drawn.

Winter

Engagement Idea: Take your photos in winter, in the snow! Use a red umbrella as a prop.

Modern Girl Invitations

I am so excited to welcome a fabulous new sponsor to Victoria with Roses! As many of you know, I am always writing about vintage elements, but I really fell in love with this company's gorgeous modern wedding invitations! Modern Girl Invitations specializes in creating bold, colorful, and modern wedding invitations at affordable prices (using only the best cardstock and envelopes). Each design has lots of matching collection items - reception cards, direction cards, save the dates, thank you notes, etc. so that all of your wedding stationery ties together. "We love our brides," Autumn, owner of Modern Girl Invitations says, "and we love taking care of them, so our customer service is super friendly and we always try to say "yes" as much as we can."

Some perks: 1) If you add collection items to your invitation & response card order, you will receive a package discount of up to 10% (more info here). 2) Invitations can be customized in your color for no additional charge. 3) Ground shipping is FREE on all invite orders!

Invitations above:
Vintage Monogram Wedding Invitations in Pool Blue.

Filigree Wedding Invitations in Black Tie.

Birds Wedding Invitations in Fuschia, Champagne, and Chocolate.

Napkins

Escort card idea: Napkins. Via here.

Feather

Love this: Have guests throw feathers after your ceremony.

Bittersweet

Gift Idea: I love these delicate golden bangles from Bittersweet NY. Buy one or two for each girl if you're tight on cash. Or, you can even buy all four for yourself to make a wonderful wedding jewelry statement!

Roses

Menu Idea: Place roses (make sure they are without pesticides) on the dish next to your main course--flowers don't always have to accompany only the dessert!

Dress

I love this shot. I love this dress. Photo by Dustin Todd. Found on Snippet&Ink.

Half

Bouquet Idea: Make half your bouquet completely one color and the other half another color. Photo by Dustin Todd.

Winter

I love these inspirations from She Walks in Beauty, for a winter white wedding: Instead of going for a holiday theme, theme your wedding around the colors white--a white chapel, white shawl, white hot chocolate, and white meringues.

Tea

Reception Idea: Make tea interactive.

Dream Wall

SUCH a good idea by Pi'lo--I'm totally doing this when I have kids!: Set up a dream wall in your kids' bedrooms. Every night before sleep pull a postcard or old photo out of a bag. The idea is to dream about the image and learn a little about art and history. You can also translate this to weddings: have a pile of old postcards, and ask guests to write on the back for your guest book and then tape them to a wall in your venue...

Napkins

Favor Idea: Vintage white damask linen napkins screen printed with an old recipe for irish soda bread that the artist georgia o'keeffe made every day. Buy sets of 4 here for $38.

One of My Favorite Wedding Posts!

This wedding I saw posted on 100 Layer Cake and photographed by Max Wanger has to be one of my all-time favorites! The details are incredible:
1) Holly and Billy were married at the Overbrook House in Buzzards Bay, MA. They rented the 1920’s farmhouse for the entire week and had their entire wedding party stay with them.
2) She created the invites and stationary herself, inspired by vintage champagne promos she found at the Paris flea market. Her save the dates were little notebooks where she imagined guests could write down important info (like directions) leading up to the wedding. Her invites were printed on vintage hankies… inspired by gifts that her mom has always brought to a wedding or given as a gift to friends when their daughters were married. She printed all of her fabric pieces (including guest totes) using a laser fabric printer.
3) Her bridesmaids all wore J Crew, but in different colors.
4) Holly’s dress was a handmade vintage 50’s cocktail dress she found on vintageous.com while she was in China for work. Her petticoat came from ebay, her shoes J Crew, and all of her jewelry and other accessories were vintage finds from etsy.
5) he collected different fabric throughout the year and used it to make corresponding button escort cards and napkins, in lieu of table numbers, for each table. She used the extra fabric to make cocktail napkins for the bar and the bunting flags that hung in the dance hall. Holly made the groomsmen’s ties using the same fabric.
6) Holly’s friend Ann is an amazing baker and offered to make all the cakes for the wedding herself. And by all the cakes, that means one for every table. They served and sweet and delicious centerpieces that went perfectly with the vintagey Paris feel of the tables.
7) Holly’s dad surprised her by sprucing up her childhood rowboat and making a “just married” sign for it.
8) Billy made the chalkboard and escort card board from frames he found at Goodwill.

Programs

Find out how to make these beautiful DIY programs here.

Fire Truck

Transportation Idea (from Ruffled): Rent a vintage fire truck to transport your wedding party!

Chandelier

How Pretty! A chandelier-inspired cake will save you lots of money in decorating your cake, but it still looks chic and elegant! From The Knot.

Airmail

Ooh, I love this: free printable airmail envelope and save the date! From Ruffled.

Locket

Bridesmaids' Gift Idea: I love these little silhouette lockets!